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ould it be too bold to imagine, that in the great length of time, since the earth began to exist, perhaps millions of ages before the commencement of the history of mankind, would it be too bold to imagine, that all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament, which endued with animality, with the power of acquiring new parts attended with new propensities, directed by irritations, sensations, volitions, and associations ; and thus possessing the faculty of continuing to improve by its own inherent activity, and of delivering down those improvements by generation to its posterity, world without end?
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Item, to my grandsonne Peter Pett, the son of the aforesaid Joseph Pett after the decease of me and my wife all that ground which I hold by lease by Master Robinson of Rochester to whom I give all the remainder of the yeares unexpired he paying yearly four pence if it be demanded to him and them that shall hold the lease of the said ould house ( in ) which I now dwell …" ( Proved at Westminster, 25 April 1654, on oath of Margaret Hoborn, sole Executrix.
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As Jacques Guillermaz writes about this criticism, “ ould the Chinese really have been thinking of Enver Hoxha ?”
It includes a reference to his " ould house … as it is now fenced with the brewing house and garden joyning it with the belle now standing … and the wharfe in the millponde … unto the fence of James Marsh … to have ingresse, egresse, and regresse through that way unto the waterside or water gate … and … the greate Gate Westward … and the … pumpe.
** It talks about his ould house ... as it is now fenced with the brewing house and garden joyning it with the belle now standing ... and the wharfe in the millponde ... unto the fence of James Marsh ... to have ingresse, egresse, and regresse through that way unto the waterside or water gate ... and ... the greate Gate Westward ... and the ... pumpe.
It is broadcast at 22: 30, although one edition which was broadcast at 21: 30 drew comment from Declan Lynch in the Irish Independent who wondered if it was " a gesture to the poor ould fellas who might have some chance of staying awake past the first question ".
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Though there was an occasional good-natured chuckle about Marvin Goulding, the Jewish officer from Chicago, singing tearfully about the ould sod, no one really thought it was strange.
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It looked as Gavin had first seen it years ago, on those nights when he slept alone by his campfire and waked suddenly to the hoot of an owl or the rustle of a blade of grass in the moon's wind -- a savage land, untenanted and brooding, too strong to be broken by the will of men.
He hadn't shown up too well in their eyes, letting himself be browbeaten by a woman.
Having persisted too long in deliberate ignorance and denial of the forces that threatened her, Pamela was relieved now to admit their potency and to be taking definite steps toward grappling with them.
He, McBride, would be cited as in the wrong, and he, Lord, would go scot-free, an officer who had only done his duty, though perhaps too energetically.
`` And the boy will be too much under his influence by then.
`` Come spring, you'll be kicking up your heels and feeling coltish again too, gal ''.
Keith learned too much about air combat, and air killing, to be risked.
As John T. Westbrook says in his article, `` Twilight Of Southern Regionalism '' ( Southwest Review, Winter 1957 ): `` The miasmal mausoleum where an Old South, already too minutely autopsied in prose and poetry, should be left to rest in peace, forever dead and ( let us fervently hope ) forever done with ''.
When Heidegger and Sartre speak of a contrast between being and existence, they may be right, I don't know, but their language is too philosophical for me.
It resembles, too, pictures such as Durer and Bruegel did, in which all that looks at first to be solely pictorial proves on inspection to be also literary, the representation of a proverb, for example, or a deadly sin.
He is, like Phillip Marlowe, too alienated to be reliable.
( B ) A message runs too great a risk of being distorted if it is to be relayed more than about six consecutive times.
During the decade that followed, the common man, as that piece put it, grew uncomfortable as the Voice of God and fled from behind Saint Woodrow ( Wilson ) only to learn from Science, to his shocked relief that after all there was no God he had to speak for and that he was just an animal anyhow -- that there was a chemical formula for him, and that too much couldn't be expected of him.
Examples are in public utilities, making military aircraft and accessories, or where the investment and risk for a proprietorship would be too great for a much needed project impossible to achieve by any means other than the corporate form, e.g. constructing major airports or dams.
I had developed too foolproof a facade to be afraid of self-betrayal.
When Prudence and Blackberry were too young to be trusted in the dining room, they were tied to the radiator with their leashes, and they would cry.
Scientists often turn out to be idiosyncratic, too.
But to go from here to the belief that those more sensitive to metaphor and language will also be more sensitive to personal differences is too great an inferential leap.
Tolerance and compromise, social justice and civil liberty, are today too often in short supply for one to be overly critical of Trevelyan's emphasis on their central place in the English tradition.
Sherman could never be accused of sticking too long with the old.
As a proud man, his prestige would suffer if he let Pike dictate to him through the governor's office, but to lower his prices would be tantamount to an admission that they had been too high in the first place.
They had my mother's opinion of him: that he was too sharp or a little too good to be true.
He was Julius Kahn for whom the Chief of Staff thought no honor could be too great.
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Nothing was going to be done this year to celebrate Garibaldi's bold and unsuccessful defense of Rome.
According to the original program, Premier Khrushchev expected the millions looking toward the Kremlin this morning to be filled with admiration or rage -- depending upon individual or national politics -- because of the `` bold program for building communism in our time '' which the Congress will adopt.
No, she would not pretend modesty, but neither must she be crudely bold.
An adventure is defined as an exciting or unusual experience ; it may also be a bold, usually risky undertaking, with an uncertain outcome.
If a ) testimonies conflict one another, b ) there are a small number of witnesses, c ) the speaker has no integrity, d ) the speaker is overly hesitant or bold, or e ) the speaker is known to have motives for lying, then the epistemologist has reason to be skeptical of the speaker's claims.
These jerseys were white, with a single bold red stripe on the sleeves and chest, and a uniquely-styled white Old English " D " ( a Detroit sports tradition, but formerly used by the Wings, Detroit Lions, and the University of Detroit Titans ) centered on the chest stripe, but not to be confused with the Old English " D " used by the Detroit Tigers.
Ironically the perpetrator turns out to be a strong, assertive women, capable of taking bold initiatives and setting the agenda for everybody else-and making use of all this to aggressively promote a violently anti-feminist agenda.
In his bold and wide-ranging experiments he can be seen as the grandfather of Pop Art, Happenings, Concept Art, Fluxus, multimedia art and post-modernism.
Acknowledging that Thor has arrived, Loki asks Thor why he is raging, and says that Thor won't be so bold to fight against the wolf when he swallows Odin at Ragnarök.
A tag such as " h1 " ( header level 1 ) might be presented in a large bold sans-serif typeface, for example, or in a monospaced ( typewriter-style ) document it might be underscored – or it might not change the presentation at all.
This point of view regards as an incredibly rich set given to us by one bold new axiom, which can never be approached by any piecemeal process of construction.
Like choreography, the direction is designed to meld Kabuki with Western forms ... the attempt is so bold and the achievement so fascinating, that its obvious faults demand to be overlooked.
Rex Ingram's films were considered by many contemporary directors to be artistic and skillful, with an imaginative and bold visual style.
In 1992, SGI decided to clean up and reform IRIS GL and made the bold move of allowing the resulting OpenGL API to be cheaply licensed by SGI's competitors, and set up an industry-wide consortium to maintain the OpenGL standard ( the OpenGL Architecture Review Board ).
The surfaces should be broad and simple, defined by a bold and clear design, accentuated in the important places.
Alternately, hidden ( eg, control ) characters, and redundant use of markup ( eg, empty bold, underline or italics ) can add embedded within a body of text to hide information that wouldn't be visually apparent when displayed, but can be discovered by examining the document source.
First was font axes ( morphing ), for example allowing fonts to be smoothly adjusted from light to bold or from narrow to extended — competition for Adobe's " multiple master " technology.
Blackboard bold symbols are also referred to as double struck, although they cannot actually be produced by double striking on a typewriter.
The Chicago Manual of Style in 1993 ( 14th edition ) advises: " lackboard bold should be confined to the classroom " ( 13. 14 ) whereas in 2003 ( 15th edition ) it states that " pen-faced ( blackboard ) symbols are reserved for familiar systems of numbers " ( 14. 12 ).
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